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Cover 1 Contents 6 Notes on Contributors 8 Acknowledgments 12 Introduction Breaking Boundaries, Building Bridges 14 Part 1 Reconsiderations 22 1 Disability and the Suppression of Historical Identity: Rediscovering the Professional Backgrounds of the Blind Residents of the Hôpital des Quinze-Vingts 24 2 ‘O Sweete Venym Queynte!’: Pregnancy and the Disabled Female Body in the Merchant’s Tale 38 3 Playing by Ear: Compensation, Reclamation, and Prosthesis in Fourteenth-Century Song 52 4 Representations of Disability in the Thirteenth-Century Miracles de Saint Louis 66 5 The Exemplary Blindness of Francis of Assisi 80 6 Experience, Authority, and the Mediation of Deafness: Chaucer’s Wife of Bath 94 7 Protecting or Restraining? Madness as a Disability in Late Medieval France 6 8 Representations of Disability: The Medieval Literary Tradition of the Fisher King 118 9 ‘Ther is moore mysshapen amonges thise beggeres’: Discourses of Disability in Piers Plowman 132 10 Kingly Impairments in Anglo-Saxon Literature: God’s Curse and God’s Blessing 148 11 Difference and Disability: On the Logic of Naming in the Icelandic Sagas 162 Part 2 Reverberations 178 12 Henryson’s Textual and Narrative Prosth

Author

Eyler, Joshua R.;

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